Colombia’s government has decreed a quarantine in response to the coronavirus pandemic that is in force until at least May 31. Municipal governments imposed additional measures to prevent the spread…
Colombia’s construction and manufacturing sectors restarted some activity on Monday amid fierce resistance from the opposition, which claimed this meant “sending workers to the slaugherhouse.” The plan of President Ivan…
Colombia’s Interior Ministry issued a decree on Friday that surprisingly prioritized gambling in an attempt to gradually restart the economy on Monday after a month-long shutdown. President Ivan Duque last…
“End the lockdown now!!!” some guy wrote on Colombia Reports’ Twitter. “Why?” I asked him after 15 hours of confusion. I have been smoking two packs of cigarettes a day…
Colombia’s President Ivan Duque on Monday extended his country’s quarantine until May 11, but said he would allow the restart of construction and manufacturing. In his daily Facebook broadcast, Duque…
Residents of Colombia’s capital Bogota raised $13 million (COP52,000 million)on Sunday to help the city’s poor through a quarantine that is in place to slow down the spread of the…
Mayors and governors throughout Colombia blocked President Ivan Duque’s attempt to restart the economy on Sunday by maintaining their decrees restricting mobility. Bogota Mayor Claudia Lopez, whose city has been…
Tensions in Colombia are growing as food supplies promised by President Ivan Duque to prevent hunger during a quarantine allegedly never arrived in some parts of the country. Residents of…
Colombia’s President Ivan Duque said Monday he will extend a lockdown in his country until April 26 after coining an “intelligent lockdown” backfired. The president announced the extension two days…